 When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see...  The Spectator. ... - Σελίδα 1501789Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 σελίδες
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great,...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 σελίδες
...roost gay and delightful ones. By this means, 1 can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great,...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ', when i meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 σελίδες
...means, 1 can improve myself with objects which others consider with terror. When 1 look upon the torebs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; •when 1 meet with the grief of parent* upon a tombstone, niy heart melts with compassion... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 σελίδες
...myself with objects which others consider with terror. — When I look upon the tombs of the great^every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinante desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts... | |
 | 1821 - 614 σελίδες
...Gay." We may learn much from the monuments in Westminster Abbey. Addison says, (Spectator, No. 26.) " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion... | |
 | 1821 - 324 σελίδες
...me, for bringing them again into his remembrance, by closing this paper with a citation of them : " When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beantiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone,... | |
 | 1822 - 788 σελίδες
...ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When [ as sufficiently discovered hers in this. I will lay...wager she pleases against her present favourite, and desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 σελίδες
...your study is by far the greatest. London, 1821. . Q. MR^ADDISON'S REFLECTIONS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. "WHEN I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion...of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the bt.autiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone,... | |
 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 σελίδες
...PKflfTSO »Г 1. КГЛЯЗ, GUILDIlALL-îQUaRE. A View of Death thouldsubdue Envy, Pride, WHEN 1 properly look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me— when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out, — when... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 σελίδες
...gay and delightful ones. By this means I can improve myself with those objects, which others consider with terror. When I look upon the tombs of the great,...read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion... | |
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